Acknowledgements The Yale Glee Club, Yale Alumni Chorus, International Festival of Arts & Ideas, and Yale School of Music wish to thank the following organizations and individuals for their help in making this year’s festival possible: Producers Matthew Ringel, Allan Atherton, and Lisa Kant Symposium Selection Committee members André de Quadros, Mary Cohen, and Catherine Roma Symposium Steering Committee members Phillip Brunelle, Mary Lou Aleskie, and André De Quadros Symposium Research Fellows Miles Canaday and Micah Hendler Festival Interns Miriam Lauter and Lisa Zhang Michael Anderson Dana Astmann Dorie Baker Michael Benchetrit Robert Blocker William Boughton Marguerite Brooks Elaine Carroll Cathy Chan Henry Chan Mei Chen Timothy DeWerff Tara Deming Mark Dollhopf Cathy Edwards Simon Fairclough Jefferson Freeman Ed Greenberg June 19–23, 2012 Neeta Helms, Yarina Conners, and the entire team at Classical Movements Missy Huber New Haven, Connecticut Art Priromprintr Martin Jean Eugene Kimball Richard Levin Linda Lorimer Charles Lu Sarah Machowski Chris Melillo Michael Morand Toshiyuki Shimada Russell Thomas Jack Vees Bill Weber The members of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Special thanks to Irma Garcia and Sean Maher Canner Street Cottage Street Divinity School Marquand Chapel Institute of Sacred Music Lawrence Street Betts House Greenberg Conference Center St. Ronan Street Edwards Street Prospect Street Sustainable Food Project Marsh Hall Farm Farnam Gardens Pierson-Sage Garage Bishop Street Marsh Botanic Edwards Street Gardens Hillside Place Humphrey Street Munson Street Tilton Street Woodland Street Kroon Hall Peabody Compton Street Museum Prospect Street WhitneyAvenue Ingalls Rink Mansfield Street Webster Street Sachem Street Winchester Avenue Caulkins Courtyard Lincoln Street Bradley Street School of Management President’s House Bristol Street Lock Street Garage Yale Health YICFCenter Event locations Prospect Place Luce Rose Hall Center (Yale Lock Street Police) from I-91 Canal Street Hillhouse Avenue Trumbull Street Office of International GROVE STREET Helen Students & Scholars CEMETERY Hadley Hall Dear friends, Summer Session Temple Street Audubon Street Becton Whitney Avenue Welcome to New Haven, to Yale University, and to the first Yale International Choral Festival! Davies Lake Place This new festival represents an exciting coming together of many independent but closely connected Prospect Street Ashmun Street Lanman Center 100 streams: the Yale Glee Club’s long tradition of international partnership through music, the Yale Alumni Tower Hall Chorus’s recent embrace and expansion of this tradition, the Yale School of Music’s global musical reach, Pkwy Rosenfeld York Square Place and the International Festival of Arts & Ideas innovative arts programming. Our symposium, Choirs Payne Grove Street Whitney Transforming Our World, draws further upon the work of the American Choral Directors Association’s Gym Commons International Conductor Exchange Program, and the International Federation for Choral Music’s HEWITT Woolsey Conductors Without Borders network. Sterling Silliman Timothy Hall of Hall Law QUAD Dwight Graduate Beinecke Morse Building While each collaborator brings something different to our festival, we all share a common purpose: to Studies Library Tower Parkway explore and celebrate the powerful connections choral music fosters between people. Wall Street Ezra Many people have contributed to making this event a reality. In particular, I want to extend my sincere Stiles Sprague Slifka Hall Berkeley Trinity gratitude to Mary Lou Aleskie, Executive Director the International Festival of Arts & Ideas; Ed Greenberg, Yale Bass Lutheran Sterling Library Church President of the Yale Alumni Chorus Foundation; Matthew Ringel, Lead Yale Alumni Chorus Producer; Mory’s Sudler Hall Bookstore Broad Memorial (WLH) Whalley Avenue Library Timothy Sharp, Executive Director of the American Choral Directors Association; Michael Anderson, way CROSS CAMPUS President of the International Federation for Choral Music, and Robert Blocker, the Lucy and Henry Moses Hendrie Hall Visitor Orange Street York Street Temple Street Christ Trumbull Berkeley Calhoun Center Church Street Dean of Music at the Yale School of Music. Church Elm Street We wish to extend an especially warm welcome to our distinguished guest choruses: the Chorus of Elm Street Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music, the Manado State University Choir of Indonesia, the Cambridge Lanman- United Church University Consort of Voices, and the Imilonji KaNtu Choral Society of South Africa. We hope your singers Saybrook Wright Battell Chapel Harkness enjoy their brief time at our university, and we look forward to hearing your music and learning from you Davenport Tower OLD CAMPUS over the course of the coming week. NEW HAVEN GREEN Pierson Dwight Branford Hall Lastly, we welcome our many distinguished symposium presenters, who bring a wealth of talent, Lynwood Place Phelps University Theatre experience, and passion to this endeavor. We look forward to being challenged, provoked, and inspired by Howe Street Jonathan Edwards Linsly- your ideas. Edgewood Avenue ChittendenMcClellan Hall It is our sincere hope that this year’s festival will be the first of many to come, the beginning of a new Connecticut Sculpture chapter in Yale’s commitment to the choral arts. Thank you for being a part of it. Garden Art Trinity Rudolph Church Hall Gallery Chapel Street Yours in song, to Yale Athletic Yale Fields Cha pel Street Repertory Theatre Center for Green British Art Hall Chapel- York Garage Shubert Jeffrey Douma Performing Arts Center Artistic Director, Yale International Choral Festival Crown Street n n BAR n n Battell Chapel Hendrie Hall Sprague Hall Timothy Dwight College York Street High Street Park Street Church Street Orange Street Temple Street Elm & College Streets 165 Elm Street College Street 470 College Street 345 Temple Street n Commons n Rosenfeld Hall n Sudler Hall (WLH) George Street n Woolsey Hall 168 Grove Street 109 Grove Street 100 Wall Street College & Grove Streets from I-91 & I-95 North Frontage Road Air Rights Parking Facility College Street South Frontage Road LEPH ESH Church Street South Lafayette Street Yale- Mary S. New Haven Harkness Park Street Hospital York Street Auditorium Sterling Hall Congress Avenue Sylvan Avenue of Medicine Howard Avenue Gold Street Liberty Street Vernon Street Cedar Street Amistad Street School of Nursing Amistad Washington Avenue Park Tuesday, June 19 8:00 am Festival registration begins Blocker Room, Sprague Hall 10:15 am Welcome • Jeffrey Douma, Artistic Director, Yale International Choral Festival • Ed Greenberg, President, Yale Alumni Chorus • Matthew Ringel, Producer, Yale International Choral Festival • Robert Blocker, The Lucy and Henry Moses Dean of Music at Yale Morse Recital Hall, Sprague Hall 10:30 am – 11:30 am Lecture The Development of Choral Music in Contemporary China Prof. Yang Hongnian, Central Conservatory of Music (see full biography, p. 14) Morse Recital Hall, Sprague Hall 11:30 am Lunch Commons* 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Conducting Masterclass Chorus of the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing Master teachers: Profs. Yang Hongnian and Yang Li, Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing YICF Conducting Fellows (see p. 45 for full biographies) Morse Recital Hall, Sprague Hall 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm Yale Alumni Chorus rehearsal Battell Chapel 5:30 pm Dinner Commons 8:00 pm Concert 1 Yale Choral Artists Morse Recital Hall, Sprague Hall 1 *If you have not purchased a Meal Plan, meals in Commons can be purchased on an individual basis Tuesday, June 19 Concert 1 Yale Choral Artists Jeffrey Douma, Musical Director Tuesday, June 19 8 pm Morse Recital Hall, Sprague Hall PROGRAM oh graveyard (lay this body down) Traditional; words and music arr. by David Lang (b. 1957) Anna Ward, soprano; Kate Maroney, alto; Max Blum, tenor; Jason Thoms, bass The Mask William Bolcom (b. 1938) Erika Schroth, pianist 1. We Wear the Mask 2. Heritage 3. Shadow 4. Worn Faces 5. Interlude for Natalie 6. Portrait Walden Pond Dominick Argento (b. 1927) Hannah Collins, Ezra Selzter, and Mihai Marica, violoncello; Maura Valenti, harp Amanda Sidebottom, soprano; Carrie Cheron, alto; Andrew Crane, tenor; Bradford Gleim, bass 1. Walden Pond 2. Angling 3. Observing 4. Extolling 5. Walden Revisited PROGRAM NOTES oh graveyard (lay this body down) “The choral conductor Craig Hella Johnson asked I hope I got that right! With this in mind I found me to write a contemporary spiritual, for a program a traditional song – ‘lay this body down’ – and that he was designing for his chorus Conspirare. My universalized it, changing the text slightly and understanding of his concept was that it might be the harmony greatly, magnifying the notion in interesting to make a program of music that was more the text that faith might ease our journey towards a response to the genre of spirituals and what they a peaceful death.” mean than to try to connect through spirituals directly –David Lang to slavery and the African American experience. 2 Text Texts oh graveyard, graveyard 1. We Wear the Mask I’m walking through this graveyard We wear the mask that grins and lies, lay this body down. It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— I know moon-rise, star-rise This debt we pay to human guile; I’m walking through this star-rise With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, lay this body down. And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, I know moonlight, starlight In counting all our tears and sighs? I’m walking through this starlight Nay, let them only see us, while lay this body down. We wear the mask. I am walking in this graveyard We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries I’m walking through this graveyard To thee from tortured souls arise. lay this body down. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; I am lying in my grave, But let the world dream otherwise, I’m stretching out my arms, We wear the mask! lay this body down. –Paul Laurence Dunbar I am going to my judgement in the evening of the day, 2.